Grade 4 Title: My Name is Magnolia Whittney McCray

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1 Grade 4 Title: My Name is Magnolia Whittney McCray Student Learning Objective(s): The students will understand why Magnolias are a type of evergreen. The students will create a story based on the information that they have collected. The students will learn about different types of Magnolias. The students will demonstrate their knowledge by filling in a KWL chart and creating a story. LA GLE s Grade:4: #1: Ask questions about objects and events in the environment (e.g., plants, rocks, storms) (SI-E-A1) Grade: 4: # 4. Predict and anticipate possible outcomes (SI-E-A2) Grade: 4 # 48: Classify examples of plants and animals based on a variety of criteria (LS-E-B2) Grade: 4 # 52: Describe how some plants and animals have adapted to their habitats (LS-E-C2) Grade: 4 # 53: Identify the habitat in which selected organisms would most likely live and explain how specific structures help organisms to survive (LS-E-C2) Materials needed: Pictures of the six different Magnolias Charts for each activity KWL chart, prediction sheet, Magnolia trees characteristics chart Learning logs 5 different Magnolia information Document camera if available Pictures and leaves of Magnolias Detailed Procedure. Describe what the students will do in each stage. Include guiding questions you might ask to help students. 1. Engage: Science Process Skills Indicate which science process skills students will develop in this part of the lesson. Observation Classification Communication Measurement Estimation Prediction Inference Identifying Variables Controlling Variables Defining Operationally Forming Hypotheses Experimenting Graphing Modeling Students will discuss the evergreens that they researched in the last class time. The students will take out their KWL charts and will discuss what they have learned from the last time. The students will then look at the chart created from last class. They will pay attention to the Magnolia today. The students will look at the Magnolia. The teacher will ask students: Do you think that all Magnolias are just like this one here (our state flower)? No because some of them are different colors and some of them grow in different places. So there are Magnolias in different areas? Yes, they have some in China, South America and in different areas across the United States. So then the students will get another KWL chart about Magnolias. They will fill in what they know and what they want to know about the Magnolias. A few people will share as the teacher writes some responses on the board. 2. Explore: Science Process Skills Indicate which science process skills students will develop in this part of the lesson. Observation Classification Communication Measurement Estimation Prediction Inference Identifying Variables Controlling Variables Defining Operationally Forming Hypotheses Experimenting Graphing Modeling The students will be in the same groups as last time and they will have the same jobs/responsibilities: 1 recorder -1 speaker -1 noise and task monitor -1 material manager The teacher will explain all of the roles and responsibilities each person has in the group prior to going into the lesson. Next, each group will get a different type of Magnolia: -Magnolia Virginiana -Magnolia Macrophylla -Magnolia Sieboldii -Magnolia Watsonii

2 -Magnolia Wilsonii pictures and information packets come from They will get the information page and will fill in the charactertics chart based on what they find in the information packet: -Color -size -height -climate -loose leaves/keep leaves -fruit or no fruit -type of leaves -Location They will have 15 minutes to complete this activity. 3. Explain: Outline the line of questioning you will use to assist students in understanding the concept. List at least 5 good questions and identify the question category (Gallagher & Aschner) in which your question falls (see text, Figure 7.6). After the 15 minutes is over the class will come back to order and the speakers from each group will tell what each group recorded in their charts. They will discuss their predictions and what they read (found out in the reading). We will discuss what magnolias are and what they recorded. We will discuss: Typical size Where they are typically located Color Climate What are they good for What hurts them, etc. 1. Where do Magnolias usually live? 2. Do they produce fruit? Why? 3. What is the average height that Magnolias grow to? 4. Why are Magnolias a type of Evergreen? 5. What are Magnolias good for? 4. Expand: Science Process Skills Indicate which science process skills students will develop in this part of the lesson. Observation Classification Communication Measurement Estimation Prediction Inference Identifying Variables Controlling Variables Defining Operationally Forming Hypotheses Experimenting Graphing Modeling The materials manager will get the magnolia cut out and will trace on a piece of poster board. The students will have to create a story like the Evergreen story about their Magnolia. They will use the chart that they created to come up with the story. The recorder will write and everyone can put in ideas about the Magnolias that they find important. When they are finished (after 15 minutes), they will share their stories to the class. After reading their stories, they will fill in the last part of their chart what they have learned. 5. Evaluate: What exactly will you do, or what evidence/data will you collect, to ascertain whether the students can achieve the objectives you listed at the top of this lesson? Engage: The teacher will pick up their completed KWL charts for the Magnolia tree Explore: The teacher will grade the Magnolia Chart that the students must fill in from the information they get from the Magnolia tree packets Explain: The teacher will evaluate the student s predictions while they are discussing what they have found anecdotal notes on the students Extend: the teacher will pick up their Evergreen Charts and KWL chart to grade them as well as their stories on the Magnolias.

8 Magnolia X Soulangiana Habitat a hybrid of Magnolia heptapeta x Magnolia quinquepeta hardy to zone 5 (warmer parts of 4) Habit and Form a deciduous small tree grows up to 30' tall upright and spreading branching rounded to irregular habit multi-trunked or with low main branches Summer Foliage deciduous leaves 3" to 7" long, half as wide leaves elliptical with a sharply-pointed tip leaf color is dark green new leaves are reddish bronze foliage maintains a high quality through the summer Autumn Foliage leaves turn yellow-brown before falling not highly ornamental Flowers white, pink, or purple cup-like, large blossoms blooms in mid- to late April sometimes fragrant flowers at young age typically very showy; a heavy bloomer Fruit 4" long aggregate fruit with knobby surface typically few are produced seed emerge reddish-orange from slits mature in August and September Bark smooth, silver-gray quite attractive Landscape Use as a specimen

9 patio tree very effective in groupings when space allows desired for impressive spring bloom display ID Features flower buds and vegetative buds very distinct hairs on flower buds are dense and short silver-gray smooth bark pink-tinged, white, saucer-shaped flowers in spring multi-trunked or with main branches low on the trunk Propagation by seed cultivars by cuttings

10 Magnolia Stellata Habitat native to Japan zone 4 Habit and Form a deciduous small tree or large shrub grows 15' to 20' tall, with a spread of 10' to 15' branching is upright-spreading; multi-stemmed shape is rounded or oval has a somewhat dense-compact, twiggy nature Summer Foliage leaves are elliptic 2" to 4" long and half as wide leaves are smaller than other magnolias and form a dense foliage mass color is medium to dark green new leaves emerge with a bronze cast clean-looking, high quality Autumn Foliage no fall color develops Flowers 3" to 4" across white to pink-tinged tepals per flower each tepal is 1.5" to 2" long tepals are narrow and strap-like blooms just before M. x. soulangiana blossoms lightly fragrant very showy in bloom Fruit reddish-green, knobby aggregate fruit about 2" long often drops before fully developed fruit mature and open in early autumn mature fruit opens by slits to reveal orange red seeds Bark young twigs have smooth, shiny chestnut brown bark main trunks have smooth, silvery gray bark bark is ornamental

11 Landscape Use as a specimen for patios excellent flowering tree for small spaces ID Features small leaves for a magnolia flower buds covered with very long hairs 12 to 18 strap-like tepals per flower small habit and size for a magnolia Propagation by seed by cuttings

12 Magnolia Virginiana Habitat native to eastern United States; more common in southeast hardy to zone 5 often found in swampy locations Habit and Form a semi-evergreen small tree 10' to 30' tall in the northeast 40' to 60' tall in the southeast multi-stemmed, loose and open rounded to pyramidal or irregular outline upright, spreading branching Summer Foliage leaves are evergreen in the southeastern United States leaves are semi-evergreen to deciduous in the northeastern United States (zone 5 and 6) leaves are 5" long; alternate arrangement smooth, almost wary, bright green upper surface undersides of leaves are white and look frosted young twigs are green and smooth Autumn Foliage typically not showy a mix of yellow, brown and green non-uniform color due to semi-evergreen nature Flowers blooms in mid-june; sporadically during the summer 2" to 3" diameter creamy white flowers 9 to 12 petals lemon-scented generally not strongly showy in bloom because the foliage hides many blossoms and flowers are not very abundant Fruit 2' long aggregate fruit changes from green to red when mature orang-red seeds are visible through slits in mature fruits Bark smooth, dark gray on older branches and trunk young branches smooth and green Landscape Use

13 as a specimen tree or large shrub useful for flower fragrance patio plant naturalistic areas wet soils ID Features smooth, green bark or twigs silvery-white undersides of leaves Propagation by seed by cuttings; can be challenging from adult trees

14 Name My Name is Magnolia Magnolia Tree Name Field Name What I have found Habitat Size of Tree Summer Plants Summer Plants Autumn Plants Flowers Fruit Bark Landscape Use (how it can be used outside) Tree Features Propagation- How they are spread

15 MAGNOOLIA ACUMINATA

16 MAGNOLIA KOBUS MAGNOLIA X SOULANGIANA

17 MAGNOLIA STELLATA MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

18 Name Predictions Worksheet: Magnolia Predictions Date What did I find?

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